#story

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy

It was if the charming theatrical curtain had dropped away and I saw him for the first time as he really was: not the benign old sage, the indulgent and protective good-parent of my dreams, but ambiguous, a moral neutral, whose beguiling trappings concealed a being watchful, capricious, and heartless. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#dreams

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#based #cooperation #correct #east #east asia

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#attracted #been #bound #completely #each

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. ↗

— George Tenet

#agency #any #best #came #case

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#created #europe #history #philosophy

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#hong kong #i #knew #kong #once

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #else #few #get #happening

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#civics #equality #find #history #learn

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#escape #how #interests #only #reality